"The Help"

I'm sure someone made a post about this movie back in August when it came out. I actually watched it last night for the first time and I thought it was an incredible movie. Theres no question this movie will be nominated for, and hopefully win, a lot of Oscar awards.

yea, it didnt catch my eye enough to see in the theaters for some reason. But I got really bored last night and went to the redbox and figured eeeh what the hell. I didnt expect much, but I am so glad I rented that. One of those most uplifting movies I ever seen.....

def gonna laugh a lot and possibly open up the floodgates a bit too lol

And if youre into history, like I am (nerd), its reeaaally interesting to see life thru a certain group of ppls eyes in that time period in the Deep South

I read the book when a friend of mine recommended it. She had told me for months to read it and I was lke, "blah blah blah... chick book.... blah blah" but when I finally read, I DEVOURED it. It was excellent.

So I didn't want to see the movie because the movie is hardly ever as good as the book. It is good to hear that the movie is good and I will watch it soon.

Chattman91 saidIt's a shitty movie with the same message as "Radio", "The Blind Side", and "Avatar".

LOL, Avatar? That's so random.

What you're referring to (I think - who the hell knows!) is the Hollywood archetype of the "magic negro" which is predominant in the works of Stephen King (The Shining, The Green Mile, etc) and other movies like The Legend of Baggar Vance. I believe the phrase was coined by Spike Lee (or he popularized it), and it refers to African-American characters who appear out of nowhere to help the white protagonists, often with magical or larger-than-life abilities. They typically die or disappear at the end.

Sorry, but The Help is not one of those movies. The African-Americans in the movie are rich, well-rounded characters with fully developed backgrounds, and the plotlines of the movies follow them more than the white characters. (If anything, some of the white characters in The Help are relegated to broad stereotypes.) To suggest that the African-Americans in The Help are props to shore-up the white characters simply because they work for them belies both a lack of analytical thinking and knowledge of history.

Chattman91 saidIt's a shitty movie with the same message as "Radio", "The Blind Side", and "Avatar".

LOL, Avatar? That's so random.

What you're referring to (I think - who the hell knows!) is the Hollywood archetype of the "magic negro" which is predominant in the works of Stephen King (The Shining, The Green Mile, etc) and other movies like The Legend of Baggar Vance. I believe the phrase was coined by Spike Lee (or he popularized it), and it refers to African-American characters who appear out of nowhere to help the white protagonists, often with magical or larger-than-life abilities. They typically die or disappear at the end.

Sorry, but The Help is not one of those movies. The African-Americans in the movie are rich, well-rounded characters with fully developed backgrounds, and the plotlines of the movies follow them more than the white characters. (If anything, some of the white characters in The Help are relegated to broad stereotypes.) To suggest that the African-Americans in The Help are props to shore-up the white characters simply because they work for them belies both a lack of analytical thinking and knowledge of history.

PS: Yeh, Radio and The Blind Side both fucking suck.

The name of the book and the movie is "The Help".... that might be a clue that the main characters are the African-American women who lived under oppressive circumstances and whose story has never been adequately told.